Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease.

In table 1 of this Feature (BMJ 2013;346:f3037, doi:10.1136/ bmj.f3037), we would like to add a note that the surgeon general recommended, in 1960, that all pregnant women be vaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first made a specific recommendation for pregnant women in their second and third trimesters in 1997 (not 2000, as stated in the table), and expanded this to all pregnant women in 2004 (as stated in the table). 1 Burney LE. Influenza immunization. Public Health Rep 1960;75:944. 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention and control of influenza: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).MMWR Recomm Rep 1997;46(RR-9):1-25. 3 Harper SA, Fukuda K, Uyeki TM, Cox NJ, Bridges CB. Prevention and control of influenza: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).MMWR Recomm Rep 2004;53(RR-6):1-40.